One-third of Galaxy’s Most Common Planets Could be in Habitable Zone

Hundreds of millions of planets could have the right orbit to sport liquid water and possible life.

Coastal Ecosystems Help Store Greenhouse Gases

Not all coastal environments are alike in how they capture and release greenhouse gases, but a new study published in Nature Climate Change provides the most detailed picture yet.

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Sharing the Underground Railroad’s Oral Histories

With a $350,000 federal grant, UF researchers will showcase recordings that tell how antislavery activists secretly assisted those escaping slavery.

Human DNA is Everywhere. That’s a Boon for Science — and an Ethical Quagmire.

A new study led by David Duffy, professor of wildlife disease genomics, reveals that advances in technology now allow scientists to extract DNA from the environment, but are we prepared for the consequences?

How Our Shared Need for Belonging Made May the 4th a Sacred Star Wars Holiday

R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology Gregory Webster explains the human social behavior driving the holiday's momentum.

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UF Chemists Score Major Grant for Breakthrough Research in Polymer Science

Thanks to a MURI Grant from the U.S Department of Defense, chemists at UF will be able to expand their polymer research.

‘Revolutionary’ blue crystal raises hope, questions

Researchers at the University of Rochester report this week in Nature a new material that is superconductive at room temperature, but while UF Professor James Hamlin, who was not involved with the work, says it would be 'completely revolutionary,' he also is not yet convinced.

Saturn and galaxy visible from planet's horizon.

CLAS Researchers Named Scialog Fellows

UF researchers join Scialog's "Signatures of Life in the Universe," a collaboration that explores the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.

UF Chemists Advance a New Frontier in Drug Design

A UF research team investigates a long-neglected mechanism to target disease treatments.

‘Ghostly’ Particles Lead to Major Physics Discovery

A team of physicists, including UF researchers, hunts down sub-atomic specters — stumbling across a new lens for exploring protons in the process.

Rare Bird Behavior Observed in Southern China

Department of Biology graduate student Wenyi Zhou observes a rare social behavior between two species of birds.

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look deep into the heart of the pair of merging galaxies known as UGC 4211 discovered two black holes growing side by side, just 750 light-years apart. This artist’s conception shows the late-stage galaxy merger and its two central black holes. The binary black holes are the closest together ever observed in multiple wavelengths.

Scientists Find Black Holes Tangled in Cosmic Dance

An international team of scientists, including UF astrophysicist Laura Blecha, makes a surprising discovery at the heart of a galactic merger that could expand our knowledge of space and time.

Remembering a Forgotten National Holiday

Why did the United States stop celebrating the "Glorious Eighth of January" as a national holiday? UF historian Sean Adams explores the obscure commemoration and controversial U.S. president at the heart of it all.